A BUNCH OF STUFF

The riskiest choice the filmmakers made was casting a Danish newcomer, Iben Hjejle, as Laura. ”We had been reading a lot of actresses,” Mr. Cusack says, ”and we had no consensus about choice. And then Stephen went to a film festival in Berlin where he saw ‘Mifune,’ in which Iben is just wonderful, and she was there getting an award. And he called me in the middle of the night, screaming: ‘I’ve found her! I’ve found Laura!’ I said, ‘Where are you?’ He says, ‘In Germany!’ I say, ‘Laura’s German?’ He says, ‘No, from Denmark.’ That’s when I asked him if he was drunk.”

Mr. Frears says: ”But the truth is that this is a story about a man obsessed with a woman. Well, this has to be something everyone understands. You have to have someone who fulfills that requirement. Well, that’s an incredible thing to hang on someone; no woman in life is like that. But on that cold night in February in Berlin, Iben was.”

“And she liked me. She liked me. She liked me. She liked me. Or at least, I think she did. I think she did. Etc.”

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The Sure Thing

Charlie is awful. 

It doesn’t help that Charlie talks bollocks all night; she doesn’t listen to anyone, she tries too hard to go off at obtuse angles, she puts on all sorts of unrecognizable and inappropriate accents. I would like to say that these are all new mannerisms, but they’re not; they were there before, years ago. The not listening I once mistook for strength of character, the obtuseness I misread as mystery, the accents I saw as glamour and drama. How had I managed to edit all this out in the intervening years?

How had I managed to turn her into the answer to all the world’s problems?

High Fideli-Fridays.

High Fideli-Fridays